Show vermont and maine alaine the straws which show the wa wai the wind to la blowing this thia fall have thus far shown decidedly republican inclinations A few adayr ago it was announced confidently by Demo democrats crits that the elections in vermont and maine blaine would prove to a certainty the way the national election iq 11 roine going fhe republicans aro are agreed that this is 19 the case both vermont and maine have gone republican and bo will the the lection in vermont was 0 of I 1 f considerable interest because of tile the liitt of the bull buli palt pait in that st elitc itt tito the evalt people in idia strenuous campaign campi iRn and whooped things up from one on end of vermont to the other alicy predicted nil all sorts soils of things that would surely happen tn in the republicans in that state but when the election returns were in it wa via found that the bull boobe part wag waa third in the race and the republican candidates for state office received almost as maria min votes as the democrats bull moose pro and socialists combined one of the many predictions made mada by both the democrats and roosevlt lani in vermont was tb ehlt it a coalition of the democrats and Moose velta would control the legislature leRi slature the tha returns show that the republicans elected 23 28 state senators the democrats 1 and tho the bull moose party 2 in the house the republicans elected members the democrat Demo cras 63 and tho the bull moose party 32 2 when the vermont election was 0 oer er democrats and progressives Progress ives professed not to be displeased with to rc suits but withdrew their statement that as vermont went so ho would go tho the nation democrats turned to maine blaine in hopeful anticipation they clamored loudly that as aa maine blaine wint the nation was sure to go the bull moose party put up no in maino maine so BO that the contest tas mas one between the regular republicans son ana the democrats there wai some basis for the prediction trat si maine went tho the nation I 1 would go for in the maine airline september elce election tion two scars ears ago the democrats elected the governor ind and state offic officers erg and two out of four congressmen in the november elec elections tiong of tint that year thi democrats won the congress in the nation this bear car the democrats controlled the legislature ill of the state offices ofT ices and all of the mach machinery merv of government nent the had the su port of thi saloon element of the fie state and unlimited campaign money was spent like water by the demo crate ind they had acry reason to fali act 1 Lonh dent of winning timing tile the election the republicans they said were ere dm clivi 1 lil d thi re MS mis cert un tin tu to he an lr cr democratic altor in that tata slate but the predictions went cwi iwi maine returned to the ran rants u ti bi i I 1 majority republicans were elected for ill state ollices now held by DemoLi ats rhe file two pel reuall ubil can congressmen ere returned mil ind une one Demo democratic crati min man beaten the other congressman in by a much decreased decre sed majority president taft figured dirc tl in the maine blaine contest congressman asher hinds parliamentarian for former speaker joseph carmon an aowad ado cate of president taft was a candidate for re election two years ago he was mas elected to congress Congre 9 by a small majority because he allig ned himself with the national nation administration he was branded as a stand patter or a reactionary and he ha was believed to be certain to be defeated opposing him was a wilson democrat here was declared to be a clear cut contest between a so called reactionary republican and a so called progressive democrat ur mr hinds made his campaign solely on the issue esaue of his support of president tatt taft ard was reelected by a greatly increased majority the results in vermont and maine blaine are certion indications that both the tha roosevelt and ta movements are on the wane and that president taft la is dally daily gaining strength if as the progressives progress ives iven and democrats say the nation is going the way maine and vermont hive gone the republicans will be easy winners winner in the fall election and the Demoe democrats rats and moosa alts will be fighting for second place lynched the wrong man princeton IN W a ahat a mi mitake mab aa made in III choice of NIC tinis in tho the 13 n hin or of iltem johnson i a negro foll following omIng the att altick ick on 14 year carold old nita hite is the belief no noa held by b abe author authorities itic here |